Exam 7: Memory

Samantha has just broken up with her boyfriend and is feeling very sad.She resolves to change her mood by thinking about happy things but finds that she just keeps remembering other sad things.Samantha's experience can best be explained in terms of:

To remember more information,_____ can be used to organize information into meaningful units.

Which of the following actions is an example of prospective memory?

Most forgetting is due to _____ not _____.

According to network of association theories,concepts in memory are localized in:

The storage phase of information processing lasts:

Your school requires you to change your email password every 3 months.Now,when you try to remember the new password,you can only remember the old one.This effect is most likely due to:

If the Wicked Witch of the East flew down and struck you with retrograde amnesia,you would be _____ to form new memories and _____ to remember events before the witch.

Why is memory not a perfect record of everything we see and experience?

People usually remember how many days there are in the months of September,October,and May by using:

Animation works by presenting still pictures rapidly enough that they merge in iconic memory.How much time can elapse between each successive picture if animation is to work?

Cognitive structures that help us perceive,organize,process,and use information are referred to as:

You start to answer an exam question.Even though you know the word for the answer,you cannot remember it.Due to __________,you can remember ____________ but not the word itself.

Jaimie has a very vivid memory of her first birthday party.She remembers that she wore a frilly pink dress,had a cake shaped like a pony,and received a big white teddy bear as a gift.Jaimie's detailed memory is probably due to:

Laken takes a course in which her professor talks about Virginia Woolf's novel,To the Lighthouse.The next semester,Laken writes a paper for another class on Virginia Woolf.In her paper,Laken uses ideas that her earlier professor had presented,while believing that she has developed these ideas herself.Laken's behavior is _________ and comes from _______.

According to Schachter,blocking is a type of _____,whereas misattribution is a type of_____.

Uchenna has been studying for his philosophy midterm all day.It is now 3:00 AM,and the exam is at 8:00 AM the same morning.The best thing that Uchenna can do now to increase his chances of doing well on the exam is to:

Shushant makes up a rhyme to remember what she needs to buy at the grocery store,"Garrett said to buy milk and bread." Shushant is trying to ________ her memory for her list by using _______.

The difference between absentmindedness and blocking is that in absentmindedness the information is _______; but in blocking the information is ________.

If you can remember exactly what you did yesterday but have trouble remembering the names of the 50 states,then you have excellent episodic memory but somewhat poor _____ memory.